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    Jingege & YaoYao

    3.8 (111 reviews)
    ModerateChinese
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    Inside
    Jonathan B.

    Tried coming here on a weekend once and it was packed so I went on a weekday instead. The interior is kind of odd; there are very bright colors. The service is quick and the food took a bit to come out. The duck is very fatty and they give a decent amount too. The skin is crispy and the duck is soft. For about $17, it's not a bad lunch.

    Chengdu oolong jelly
    Leslie P.

    It's always busy whenever I pass by and it was no different when I went on a weekday night! They basically have two menus in one - Jin Gege focuses on Hong Kong style BBQ (like roasted pork belly, duck, soy sauce chicken) while Yao Yao is Sichuan with dishes like spicy boiled fish and beef. You order off a tablet, and they also serve free hot tea, which is always a win. We mostly stuck to the BBQ side and tried the rice plates. The 2-meat rice plate was $17, and the salt baked chicken plate was $15, which felt pretty reasonable. The Macau roasted pork belly was my favorite - tender, crispy, and not dry at all The chicken was also nice and tender. The duck was okay but a bit bony and could've had more meat. We also tried the duck noodle soup. The noodles and soup on their own were pretty bland, so it's better to pour the duck and maybe the sauce into the soup. The duck by itself was a bit too salty, but combined it worked better. For appetizers, we got the deep fried shrimp rolls and they were sooo good. I'm a big fan of pig ear, so I had to try it here! The flavor was good, but the numbing spice was intense. I've never had it that strong before like my mouth felt crazyyy. For dessert, we got the Chengdu oolong jelly and milk custard with fresh mango. The oolong jelly was light and refreshing, but I liked the mango milk custard even more!

    Minced Pork with Eggplant in clay pot
    Da Kat A.

    First time trying this place. It's bright, spacious and clean inside. Once you sit down, they gave you a tablet to order. Then everything gets confusing on the tablet menu. It's not organized by food categories combined by Jingege and YaoYao. It's by two different places - "Jingege" and "YaoYao". They each have their own menu and food category. For example: we wanted chicken wings. Found one chicken wing dish under "Appetizer" in one menu and another different chicken wing dish under "Main Entree" under another menu. It's very hard to find items back and forth switching between two names. That led us ordered the wrong dish. Also, the menu on the window shows that they have Iced Fruit Tea, however, it is not shown in the tablet menu. I even asked a waiter to help and he couldn't find it in the tablet either, so it wasn't available to order. There is some discrepancy between the menus they stick to the window outside vs. the menu in the tablet once you actually sat down. In addition,, the tablet menu inside has a lot of dishes than the menus they display on the window (to show people outside). Besides the confusing menu, the food is decent. - Roasted duck: Delicious with crispy skin. - The XO sauce rice rolls (cheung fun): rice rolls are soft with tasty XO sauce. - Crispy chicken wings: crispy and good, but we were hoping to order the salt & pepper chicken wings originally if not because of the confusing menu. - Minced pork with egg plant clay pot: tasty but super greasy. - Crispy tofu with soy sauce: Taste much better than they look. Crispy outside and soft inside. - Salted fish with chicken fried rice: ok, not enough salted fish flavor. It's kinda bland. Food portion is good in general and everything comes out piping hot.

    2 meat combo rice plate (crispy pork and char siu)
    Chloe P.

    I looove the soy sauce chicken here. Like... wow. The sauce is so good I honestly feel like I could drink it lol. The chicken comes out with that perfectly glistening skin that's coated in the most flavorful soy-based sauce. Every bite is juicy and tender, and what really surprised me was how soft the breast meat was too. Usually breast meat can be dry, but here it's incredibly tender and full of flavor. Another must-order for me is their mini fried tofu. These little bites are so delightful -- crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, and totally addicting. I kept reaching for "just one more." Everything tasted super fresh and comforting. This is definitely one of those places I'll keep coming back to whenever I'm craving really good soy sauce chicken.

    raised beef brisket with radish in clay pot
    Yumei H.

    We were planning to visit another restaurant in the plaza but decided to eat here after seeing how popular it was. We came right before 12 on a Saturday, so we expected the wait but we actually got a table after 20 min of waiting. We ordered the HK styled soy sauce xu one, crispy roasted duck, suan cai yu and togo'd a braised beef brisket with radish to take home. Everything was delicious! My boyfriend really liked the soy sauce chicken and said the meat was juicy. I personally really liked the crispy roasted duck! Overall, food was great but the wait for food once we sat down took awhile.

    Bbq combo of bbq pork and roast duck, and peach jello red bean coconut milk drink
    LeeLee C.

    BBQ combo for lunch with the BBQ pork and roast duck. The roast duck is good, flavorful and even tastier with the sauce. The amount of food could feed me for 2 meals. I heard they were first opened in San Leandro, signature dishes are the HK style BBQ. But personally I'm not a fan of their BBQ, thick cut meat, no problem, a bit too burned on the top is my complaint. Love the soy beans that came with, so flavorful when soaked into the BBQ soy sauce. The veggie choy sum are also cooked in some soy sauce, making it a great complement to the white rice. Their drinks are made from T4.

    Salt and pepper duck bones - excellent!
    Cin-Yee S.

    Swarms of Asian aunties can't be wrong! This restaurant serves some of the best Cantonese/HK style barbecue you will ever eat. The Peking duck features crisp skin, juicy meat, and all the accoutrements (and a very generous number of thin pancakes, which I appreciate because many places only give you a few). If you order this, please do yourself a favor and get the duck bones in the salt and pepper format instead of the soup. This preparation is not offered everywhere, and their version is excellent and probably the best bite of this meal. The only qualm I have is that the food is not served hot. I know that the style of barbecue is often served at room temperature or just slightly warm, but it cooled down so fast that it was hard for me to eat, and so I took most of it home. (That might not bother others, but I have such a weird finicky thing about temperature and don't like to eat anything oily, greasy, or fatty below a certain temperature because the texture bothers me. YMMV. The duck bones were served freshly fried and crispy, though.) Also, the tea, which is I know is supposed to be served hot, was sadly not. A little toaster oven and air fryer time made for a delicious dinner and leftovers the next day

    Yaoyao Combo with Boiling Fish and Sliced Beef in Hot Chili Oil
    Agnes Y.

    Heard good things about this place and decided to give it a try. The decor is modern and bright. You can see all the BBQ meats on display as soon as you enter the restaurant. The three of us ordered the Yaoyao Combo with Sliced Beef in Hot Chili Oil and Boiling Fish, their Signature Stone Pot Spare Ribs Rice, and Build Your Own Duo BBQ Platter with Golden Char Siu and Soy Sauce Chicken. The Yaoyao Combo was huge and quite flavorful. The Signature Stone Pot Spare Ribs Rice was very tasty. The BBQ platter was good but the taste was not quite Hong Kong style. All in all everything was decent and portions were very generous. Service was good and staff seemed pleasant and friendly. Prices were very reasonable and affordable.

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    Brian T.

    New restaurant in this busy plaza. They don't have a display for their name but called jingege and yaoyao. 2 types of cuisine in one! Hong Kong (jingege) and Sichuan (yaoyao) dishes. Bright and vibrant setting inside and can see the Chinese BBQ right when you walk in. Ordered via iPad and had quick service. Started off with the golden soup pickled fish. Pretty big bowl with lots of fish and a small batch of noodles in the middle. Tasty soup with some slight sour flavor. On to the HK style dishes. We got the combo BBQ dishes which had roasted duck, chicken, and golden char siu. All the meats were high quality, tender, and tasted fresh. But they were all on the salty side and needed rice to help with the saltiness. The roasted duck had a crispy skin but was drenched in sauce for too long making it salty. Chicken was soft and wasn't dry. Char siu didn't have that sweet glaze flavor you typically get from a traditional HK place. Wonton soup was very average and almost plain. Didn't have that clear broth. Sweet and sour pork was delicious. Crispy pork and tangy.

    Eggplant
    Sharon C.

    My favorite restaurant of all time! The menu is endless with so many delicious options from their BBQ section to their sour pickled fish soup dishes! The best authentic Chinese food I have had in a while! The service is also fast and efficient! The servers give you tea/water to start and an iPad to look at what is on the menu! Bonus points for having photos of each food option!! Inside is super colorful with chairs, tables, and booths. Sour Pickled Fish Soup (5/5): perfect amount of seasoning, fish texture is so bouncy Crispy Tofu (5/5): comes out hot and crispy, light seasoning

    Jackie N.

    So many options to choose from but it seems like they are most known for their roasted bird options which you can always see hanging in the front of the store. We tried a variety of meats and all were really tasty and juicy. Each had a lot of flavor and it paired very well with the scalloped fried rice and a leafy green. Def will return to try other dishes.

    Beef Brisket Rice Rolls
    Alisa B.

    I had a decent experience! I'd love to come back again in the future because they were completely sold out of duck, charsiu pork, and soy sauce chicken at 3 pm :( I would recommend the Beef Brisket Rice Rolls! These are pretty oily, but so flavorful! A good portion size and super tender beef. I enjoyed this! The Golden Suancai (large) was indeed REALLY LARGE! This was enough for 3-4 of us to share comfortably. The flavor of the broth wasn't as sour as I had hoped. The fish, lotus root, and sauerkraut were delicious though!

    thai style ong choy
    Bill L.

    The service was efficient. We got some from both cuusjne the stir-fryed boneless fish fillet was soft and tender. got the hakka shredded chicken was goo. crispy tofu was soft inside and really crispy outside. the crispy roasted duck was on point. tried the garlic cauliflower too.

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    The noodles are amongst the better ones I have tried in recent years…read more We heard of this place from a friend who lives in Fremont, so we drove down to Milpitas to check this out. It is in the same plaza as the popular porridge place and New China Tofu (where they used to sell Stinky tofu - but that is for a different story). The place is roomy and clean, the service was decent, friendly enough but we had to ask for sharing bowls and spoons. The order is the usual QR code so you order online, but pay offline. They have plenty of selection, but since it was just the 2 of us, and based on the name, noodles should be must orders. We had a soupy version (hot and sour fish) and a dry version (spicy ground pork), with a side order of cold appetizer (shredded tofu skin salad). The cold appetizer was a bit salty, but the overall flavor was pretty good. We added more chili oil that is available on the table. There was a wait between the appetizer and the next dish, we finished the appetizer before the first noodle arrived. Hot & Hour Fish - we selected the hand-cut noodles. The noodles were thick with just the right amount of chewiness. The broth was amazing with just enough kick, not too spicy. The fish was tender and the tofu was wonderful. The only "veggie" was the pickled/perserved mustard greens. We really enjoyed this one. Dry/Stir spicy noodles with ground pork - we selected the thick flat noodles for this. The presentation was beautiful and we could smell the chili powder and it was wonderful. A bit oily, which i understand as we need the oil to get the sauce mixed and noodles do not all stick together. The kick for this dish is actually less than the fish noodles, and not too salty, which was great after the salty appetizer and the strong flavor of the fish noodles. We did not finish and had to bring them back home. And we know we will be back!

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    3.8
    (482 reviews)
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    im a huge fan of taiwan cafe and wish they could open up another location on the peninsula or in…read moresf! this was my second time at the restaurant and i got the oyster pancake, hot and sour soup, meat ball, and a-choy. note that the hot and sour soup doesnt have any meat. the a-choy was lightly cooked and had subtle flavors, perfectly cooked in a homestyle manner. i highly recommend taiwan cafe and can't wait to go back!

    if taiwan cafe has 100 fans, i'm one of them. if taiwan cafe has 1 fan, that one fan is me. if…read moretaiwan cafe has no fans, i'm either dead or their quality has massively tanked. i grew up eating at this place and was reminded to review it after trying a different taiwanese place while on the brink of graduating college and about to move to a completely different state and the fact that i won't get to eat here anymore makes me so damn sad. the service is nothing special for most people, but my dad has picked up takeout from this place so often that they know him by name and give him cardboard boxes to transport the huge quantities of food (for a family of 3 btw) to his car. the ambiance is that of a typical asian restaurant: not aesthetic at all and very noisy, but it feels like home. the food of course is to die for. 肉圓 (taiwanese meatball) was my absolute favorite growing up. sweet, savory, sticky, and with that qq chewiness that is so famous in taiwanese cuisine. while most people will get the traditional taiwanese night market style 豬血糕 or pork blood sticky rice cake, i opt for the 3 cup style which has a basil soy sauce flavor instead of the usual sweet sauce. and of course, you would simply be doing yourself a disservice if you didn't get what taiwan cafe is most known for: their pork hock rice or 豬腳飯. the pig feet are cooked so perfectly and paired with a bed of braised pork rice (滷肉飯) and pickled bamboo shoots. the oyster omelette or 蚵仔煎 is another classic taiwanese night market food done so right here. definitely try it. and if you like spicy food and aren't adverse to trying pork innards, i was obsessed with the 五更腸旺 (a spicy stew with pork intestine and blood) when i was in high school and still crave it sometimes. this place is so underhyped and needs all the business it can get. please try it i promise you won't regret it -- i'm literally making plans to have their pig feet and 肉圓 shipped to another state because i already know how much i'm gonna crave this place.

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